March 2015

Volume 40 Issue 03

/Editorial/

Miguel Laufer

THE SCIENCE AMONG US (2)

154
 /Articles/

Michele Fernanda Marques de Brito, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena and Denise Dias da Cruz

LOCAL ETHNO-BOTANICAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MEDICINAL PLANTS: AN APPRAISAL OF QUANTITATIVE INDEXES (in Portuguese)

156

Sandra Flores-Márquez, Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy and José Flores-Gutiérrez

IDENTIFICATION AND EVOLUTION OF THE STRATEGIC GROUPS (SG) IN THE VENEZUELAN BANKING SECTOR (in Spanish)

165

Arnaldo Gonçalves de Campos, Geison Jader Mello, Leone Covari, Leandro Carbo, Jorge Luiz da Silva, Ronaldo Eustáquio Feitoza Senra and Maria de Fatima Barbosa Coelho

AGRO-ECOLOGY AS A MEDIATING SCIENCE BETWEEN THE TRAINING OF THE AGRONOMIST AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE (in Portuguese)

172

Luz María Cruz García, José Alfredo Arreola-Lizarraga, Renato A. Mendoza-Salgado, Patricia Galina-Tessaro, Luis Felipe Beltrán-Morales and Alfredo Ortega-Rubio

APPLYING ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INDICES WITH ECOSYSTEM APPROACH AT ECOREGIONAL LEVEL AND PRIORITIZING THE DECREE OF NEW PROTECTED NATURAL AREAS (in Spanish)

179

Alma Delia Baez-Gonzalez, James R. Kiniry, Jose Saul Padilla Ramirez, Guillermo Medina Garcia, Jose Luis Ramos Gonzalez and Esteban Salvador Osuna Ceja

PARAMETERIZATION OF ALMANAC CROP SIMULATION MODEL FOR NON-IRRIGATED DRY BEAN IN SEMI-ARID TEMPERATE AREAS IN MEXICO (in Spanish)

185

Juan Carlos López-Acosta and Rodolfo Dirzo

RELEVANT ASPECTS ABOUT THE NATURAL HISTORY OF STRANGLER HEMIEPIPHYTE PLANTS (in Spanish)

190
/Reports/

María Hilda Pérez-Barraza, Jorge Alberto Osuna-García, José Saúl Padilla-Ramírez, Roberto Sánchez-Lucio, Yolanda Nolasco-González and Ernesto González-Gaona

PHENOLOGY, PRODUCTIVITY, AND FRUIT QUALITY OF GUAVA WITH CREAM AND PINK PULP UNDER TROPICAL CONDITIONS IN MEXICO (in Spanish)

198

Roraysi Cortez, Miguel Guevara, Richard Bauza, Luis Freites, Diagnora Brito, Néstor Rosales and César Lodeiros

INCREASE OF THE CONTENT OF LIPIDS AND POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS OF A STRAIN OF Tetraselmis tetrathele THROUGH MUTATION-SELECTION (in Spanish)

204
/Essays/

Lorena Casanova-Pérez, Juan Pablo Martínez-Dávila, Silvia López-Ortiz, Cesáreo Landeros-Sánchez, Gustavo López-Romero and Benjamín Peña-Olvera

PERSPECTIVES OF COMPLEX THOUGHT IN AGROECOLOGY (in Spanish)

210